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Alciphron. Aelian. Philostratus
Epistolary fictions.The Letters of Alciphron (second century AD) constitute one of the most attractive products of the Second Sophistic. They are fictitious compositions based on …
Description of Greece, Volume II
Antiquity’s original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120–180, who traveled widely not only in Asia …
Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound
Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens’ first great tragedian.Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great …
Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices
Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato …
Moralia, VIII
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at …
Meteorologica
Things in heaven and earth.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under …
Orations, Volume II
Presents classical orations dealing with Demosthenes' political career and policies, and those of his opponents, in Greek and in English on opposite pages
Ennead VI.1–5
Plato’s most influential disciple and proponent.Plotinus (AD 204/5–270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest …
Natural History, Volume VII: Books 24–27
An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23–79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of …